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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#3008: dcopserver does not compile under Solaris (fwd)
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       2000-04-12 17:25:19
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On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> David Faure wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 01:29:39PM +0200, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> > > > Don't worry, kdecore ships unsetenv when the system doesn't.
> > >
> > > The problem is that dcopserver doesn't use kde libararies at all, and
> > > neither should it.
> >
> > Ooohh.
> > Then it has to use (huh, copy) the setenv and unsetenv fakes (which are
> > defined only when the function doesn't exist on the system).
> > See kdecore/fakes.cpp.
>
> Hihi - then all your configure test splitting was for no good? :)
> I already wondered but didn't had an explanation - if it's just the
> unsetenv, a putenv("DCOP_SERVER="); does the trick.

Hm. almost.

putenv("SESSION_MANAGER=") clears the env variable but it doesn't undefine it.
So getenv("SESSION_MANAGER") still returns a non-null pointer. Now dcopserver 
gives a Qt generated "Session management error".

Cheers,
Waldo

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